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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎482v] (969/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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FARlAB—Land watered by irrigation.
FARR ASH—Literally “ carpet-spreader, ” but having much the same meaning in Persia
as “ chaprasi ” has in India.
FARSAKH A measure of distance varying from 3| to 4 miles, the former being its usual
length in southern and western Persia. Sometimes called S A’AT, an hour, *.e.,
an hour’s journey.
FATH—Victory: literally “ opening.” Used in names of kings and grandees, and in
those of towns, etc, as FATH ’ALl SHAH, FATHABAD.
FIRUZ—A proper name : literally “ victory.” Much used in composition as FIRUZ *
ABAD—the city of victory.
G.
GABR—A fire-worshipper, an infidel.
GACH—Mortar, cement.
GAH—Place, time.
GANDUM—Wheat.
GANJlDEH—A gum used for adulterating opium.
GARDAN—A neck, i pass over a mountain.
GARDANEH—A neck of land: neck of a mountain ; a road over it.
GARM—Warm: hence GARMSIR—warm region, the lower country of Southern Persia,
and parts of other provinces and districts.
GAtj—properly GAV—a cow or bull. A land measure which varies, usually calculated
as being the amount of land 2 bullocks can plough in a day. Generally about
25 J yards square.
G.ARRAH—A cup, ewer.
GAZ—Tamarisk, the manna from the tamarisk tree {Astralagus anisacanthus). Also
a unit of measure, usua'ly about 40 or 41 inches.
GHARAB—The Euphrates poplar.
GHI—Clarified butter. , j
GHULAM—A courier.
GHUNCHAH—A native boat.
GILIM—A garment made of goat’s hair or wool : a blanket: a carpet.
GIRDU—A walnut; walnut-tree.
GIVEH—A cotton shoe.
GUD AR or GUZAR—A defile, pass.
GUR—A tomb ; a wild ass.
H.
HAFT—Seven : HAFT AD—Seventy.
HAjI—One who performs the HAJJ, or pilgrimage to the holy 'shrines. Much used in
composition, e.g. HAJlABAD.
HAKIM—Governor: possessor of HUKUMAT—authority.
HAMM AM—A bath.
HARI—A field watered by rain.
HAUZ—A masonry tank, reservoir.
HAZAR—One thousand.
HAZRAT—A title meaning “ His Excellency ”, “ His Holiness
HEBNA (HABAN ?)—Oleander ?

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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